SCAVENGERS (India) the mountains loom large not pine laden and fragrant nor craggy and awe inspiring rather huge piles of garbage that daily grow higher foul rotting reeking of human waste and remnants and the women children search and dig through the odiferous malignant heaps for any prize piece of cloth object wood metal to sell or worse for a rotting morsel to eat starved as they are with blisters and open sores on their hands and feet where constant contact is made and the seagulls natural scavengers of the trash fly about competing for food the gulls ultimately having the choice and ability to leave but without education money skills the human scavengers - the untouchables - are relegated to and as garbage for life Marsha Warren Mittman’s humorous memoir, You Know You Moved to South Dakota from New York City WHEN… (Scurfpea Publishing), is a “Western Horizons Award” winner. Poems/essays/short stories have appeared in American, British, German, and Australian literary journals and anthologies, including six Chicken Soup for the Soul tales. The author of three chapbooks, Mittman’s received various poetry/prose distinctions in the US and Ireland, and a Writer’s Residency at Alabama’s Fairhope Center for Writing Arts.
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VIGIL “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places…” J.R.R. Tolkien It was light once Before the land imploded Before the shutdown Before children shuddered The sun shone then And the moon Appeared crisp and clear Not like now – Shrouded in smog – And there were animals And growing things Like trees and food Instead of ration packs And there was water – Clean water – There was hope then All but obliterated now Yet like a winter solstice When light returns We few wait…we wait Though still in darkness For the slightest glimmer Marsha Warren Mittman’s humorous memoir, You Know You Moved to South Dakota from New York City WHEN… (Scurfpea Publishing), is a “Western Horizons Award” winner. Poems/essays/short stories have appeared in American, British, German, and Australian literary journals and anthologies, including six Chicken Soup for the Soul tales. The author of three chapbooks, Mittman’s received various poetry/prose distinctions in the US and Ireland, and a Writer’s Residency at Alabama’s Fairhope Center for Writing Arts. |
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